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                                        <h2>Alan Turing's proposal for ACE- <span class="date">Feb 1946 </span></h2>
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                                        <strong>Alan Turing</strong> joined  NPL on October 1945, where he immediately set about working on the design of an electronic digital 
                                        stored-program computing machine.</p><p> From his knowledge based partly on pre-war theoretical work of his own, partly on American 
                                            plans coupled with his personal experience of electronics he was planning on making a machine that would be capable of 	
                                            carrying out any procedure that could be defined for it .
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                                            On 19<sup>th</sup> February 1946, Turing's plans for his machine with the acronym ACE(Automatic Computing Engine) devised by Womersley, 
                                            were presented to the NPL Executive Committee. The report was so detail that Womersely wrote a supportive 'executive summary' paper to introduce 
                                            it. <br/>The details of the paper can be found <a href =" http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/andersod/HoC/AlanTuringNet/AlanTuringNet.php"><strong>here</strong></a>
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                                        Turing's report was divided into two parts.
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                                                <li><strong>Descriptive Account</strong> - mainly very readable</li>
                                                <li><strong>Technical proporsals</strong> - detailed programming techiniques as well as hardware</li>
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                                        The details of Turing's proposal can be found  <a href = "http://www.emula3.com/docs/Turing_Report_on_ACE.pdf" target = "new"><strong>here</strong> </a> [pdf]<br/><br/>
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                        References.
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                            <li>[1] David M Yates, <strong>Turing's Legacy</strong>, published by Science Museum London</li>
                            <li>[2] News from the National Physics Laboratory - <a target="_new" href = "http://www.npl.co.uk/publications/metromnia/issue8/">Metromnia Issue 8 - Summer 2000</a></li>
                            <li>[3] The Early British Computers by Simon H. Lavington - <a target="_new" href = "http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish.html">http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish.html</a></li>
                            <li>[4] History of computing, Turing's archive - <a target="_new" href = "http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/andersod/HoC/AlanTuringNet/Cat.php?Target=ACE">http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/andersod/HoC/AlanTuringNet</a></li>
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